Topic: Military shooters in Japan?

I wonder how well the Japanese would react to playing a military shooter where you play as an American killing Japanese soldiers? Think Call of Duty or Medal of Honor.

Why would companies even bother localizing those games in Japan? The FPS genre in Japan is nowhere near as popular as RPGs.

how about 1942? it was made by Capcom a Japanese company

So Japanese gamers don't care that all these shooters idolize the American military? Call of Duty is published in Japan. Why?

Ok, let's have the Germans make a shooter where Nazi's are the main characters. Try selling that in America.

I don't follow the line of thought here.

I for one am not a fan of any game that is solely War based, these games are giving some of the people at my school REALLY BAD IDEAS.

Japanese might get offended playing as an American soldier, especially since America practically destroyed Japan at the end of WW2.

That would be like Americans playing as the Al Q'aida.

Oh look. Four more questions from tendoboy in two posts.

I wonder how well the Japanese would react to playing a military shooter where you play as an American killing Japanese soldiers? Think Call of Duty or Medal of Honor.

To the best of my knowledge neither of those series have Americans killing Japanese.

Aside from that though, they evidently don't really care, since Call of Duty games shift reasonable numbers in Japan.

Why would companies even bother localizing those games in Japan? The FPS genre in Japan is nowhere near as popular as RPGs.

Why do you always ask these ridiculous questions? Because they make money. Call of Duty isn't as popular in Japan, but it still hits the top 10 when it's released.

No genre is as popular as RPGs in Japan. By your logic, "they" (whoever the heck "they" is meant to be) shouldn't bother with sports games, platformers, dance games, western RPGs or puzzlers.

So Japanese gamers don't care that Americans are making these shooters that idolize the American military?

Evidently not.

Ok, let's have the Germans make a shooter where Nazi's are the main characters. Try selling that in America.

Americans tend to get all oversensitive about this crap, though. Perhaps the Japanese are just less hysteric?

Now watch as tendoboy proceeds to ask another set of utterly inane questions.

oww thread hurting me inside

So video games ARE the cause of high school shootings.

Good to know.

Dance games are huge in Japan. Remember DDR?

"They" refers to the American publishers trying to market Western games in Japan, a country with a strong bias against anything that isn't produced in their country.

Dance games are huge in Japan. Remember DDR?

Not as popular as Dragon Quest. Konami should just give up and dump it.

"They" refers to the American publishers trying to market Western games in Japan, a country with a strong bias against anything that isn't produced in their country.

Coca-Cola begs to differ.

Hollywood begs to differ.

You make some really strange statements, you know. You have nothing you can possibly back them up with, and yet you just keep going like the Little Train That Could.

@WaltzElf

Look at my reply to your "JRPGs in America?" post. The Japanese market has pretty much always been dissonant towards American video games. If shooters were so big in Japan, then you'd see Microsoft having more success over there, and there would be more of them on the top sales charts.

http://www.1up.com/news/call-of-duty-black-ops-tops-japan

Yep. Utter failure.

Isn't this thread coming from the same guy who said everything should just be sold everywhere all willy-nilly because there might be a market somewhere maybe possibly?

I guess he changed his mind about that European-only PSP, then.

WOW!! And why do they like Mickey Mouse so much? Coca Cola?

Also, did they like Metroid Prime, because that was made in America!!

you're not the only one — especially since there'd be huge fines levied over a German company making such a game.

if companies want to market games in other countries, let them handle the fallout re: cultural differences and localization issues (there's a reason 'localization' exists in the first place, y'know). it's not your problem, tendoboy1984, and perhaps most importantly it's not your call to make in the first place.